Rural communities worldwide are increasingly reliant on international medical graduates (IMGs) to provide health care … access, with many countries utilising health policies which mandate IMGs to practise only in rural designated areas of … (medical) workforce shortage for many years. The objective of this study is to analyse the satisfaction of IMGs in their …

part of the Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL) longitudinal survey of doctors. 3727 GPs completed … encourage doctors to practise in rural areas. However, there is little robust evidence of the effectiveness of such incentive … schemes. The aim of this study is to examine the preferences of general practitioners (GPs) for rural location using a …

of 1720 rural GPs as part of the “Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL)” study. We estimate both a …Many governments have implemented incentive programs to improve the retention of doctors in rural areas despite a lack … of evidence of their effectiveness. This study examines rural general practitioners' (GPs') preferences for different …

a telephone survey. We find that an incentive improves response rates primarily amongst those individuals with the … longest history of income support receipt. Importantly, these individuals are least likely to respond to the survey in the … with heavy exposure to the income support system. -- Survey response ; incentive payments ; income support …

health, social stigma, and continuity in care in the HIV treatment cascade in the rural southeastern US. This research was … anthropologically informed mixed-methods design, and a deductive-inductive approach to thematic analysis of qualitative data obtained in …

study some competing studies of Indian rural tenancy relations. In the paper, specific examples are given of suspension of … methodology for theoretically pluralist studies. The 'unobservables' category is refined. The paper thus avoids the qualitative …